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Just wanna say that there’s no such thing as a “video podcast”. You can have a video. You can have a podcast. You can have both, but you cannot have a “video podcast”. I will die on this hill.
Also this guy actually had a podcast but abandoned it late last year. Presumably because they couldn’t monetize it properly. This is exactly the kinda bullshit that we’re seeing more and more, and why I’m calling this out.
Please don’t support channels like this. Please stop calling it a “video podcast”. It’s just a video interview.
Not sure what your point is? The technology was popularized and dubbed by Apple, not Google. If Google had done it, they could have just as well called it that and it would make no tangible difference.
And Wikipedia says video podcasts exist so I’m not sure what you’re trying to get at.
Are you aware that Wikipedia is also user-editable? I don’t care what Wikipedia says, use your brain.
Ask yourself what is a podcast? Why is it not called “radio”? Why is it not called “video”? Are all podcasts audio interviews? Apply some basic sense here. Watch the old videos from when Steve Jobs introduced it and listen to how he described it.
I don’t think it’s that unreasonable to have something called “video podcast” in the scenario where you have an actual podcast, which also happens to have a video recording available on the internet as well. Sometimes I like to watch the video versions of podcasts to see the facial expressions of the speakers. “video podcast” seems like a natural shortening of “video of a podcast”. I think the important part is that the content is first and foremost a podcast, where it is meant to be listened to. As soon as it stops being possible to listen to the podcast as audio only, for example if they start relying on visuals that can only be seen in the video, then it is no longer a podcast.
I’ve just explained in detail why it is unreasonable, and even elaborated in response to another reply. I also explained that this particular YouTube Channel does not have any associated podcast, except one that was abandoned last year. It’s just a YouTube video channel.
I don’t really think that’s a great word either. If you break down “podcast”, pod = iPod, obvi, because that’s how they were originally played back. “Cast” suggests the method of distribution across the web (RSS).
You don’t need to reinvent a new word for every type of video. They’re just called videos. If you wanted to be more specific you could call it a “video interview”, as I alluded to above.
And I would argue that language evolution is fucking stupid if all meaning is stripped from the words, as it has been here. Language “evolves” because lazy people allow it to.
It also abused by many to intentionally conflate meanings to fit an agenda.
Just wanna say that there’s no such thing as a “video podcast”. You can have a video. You can have a podcast. You can have both, but you cannot have a “video podcast”. I will die on this hill.
Also this guy actually had a podcast but abandoned it late last year. Presumably because they couldn’t monetize it properly. This is exactly the kinda bullshit that we’re seeing more and more, and why I’m calling this out.
Please don’t support channels like this. Please stop calling it a “video podcast”. It’s just a video interview.
Going to be pretty lonely on that hill.
It’s often lonely advocating for the right thing.
So since I’ve never owned an iPod I’ve never truly listened to a podcast? Or does the person creating it have to own the iPod?
You never needed an iPod to listen to a podcast.
But it’s not called droidcast. And Wikipedia says video podcasts exist so I’m not sure what you’re trying to get at.
Not sure what your point is? The technology was popularized and dubbed by Apple, not Google. If Google had done it, they could have just as well called it that and it would make no tangible difference.
Are you aware that Wikipedia is also user-editable? I don’t care what Wikipedia says, use your brain.
Ask yourself what is a podcast? Why is it not called “radio”? Why is it not called “video”? Are all podcasts audio interviews? Apply some basic sense here. Watch the old videos from when Steve Jobs introduced it and listen to how he described it.
Why call it a podcast? Digital audio interviews existed before the iPod. Just following your logic.
I guess my point it, why does it matter? We both know what it means. The language has accomplished its goal of communication.
You’re not following my logic because you don’t understand it. A podcast is not a “digital audio interview”.
The core concept of what makes a podcast a podcast is the method audio files are distributed (RSS).
I don’t think it’s that unreasonable to have something called “video podcast” in the scenario where you have an actual podcast, which also happens to have a video recording available on the internet as well. Sometimes I like to watch the video versions of podcasts to see the facial expressions of the speakers. “video podcast” seems like a natural shortening of “video of a podcast”. I think the important part is that the content is first and foremost a podcast, where it is meant to be listened to. As soon as it stops being possible to listen to the podcast as audio only, for example if they start relying on visuals that can only be seen in the video, then it is no longer a podcast.
I’ve just explained in detail why it is unreasonable, and even elaborated in response to another reply. I also explained that this particular YouTube Channel does not have any associated podcast, except one that was abandoned last year. It’s just a YouTube video channel.
Weren’t they called videocasts at one point?
I don’t really think that’s a great word either. If you break down “podcast”, pod = iPod, obvi, because that’s how they were originally played back. “Cast” suggests the method of distribution across the web (RSS).
You don’t need to reinvent a new word for every type of video. They’re just called videos. If you wanted to be more specific you could call it a “video interview”, as I alluded to above.
Language evolves
And I would argue that language evolution is fucking stupid if all meaning is stripped from the words, as it has been here. Language “evolves” because lazy people allow it to.
It also abused by many to intentionally conflate meanings to fit an agenda.